The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ideally, you end up going to auditions not because you want a job but because you want to try out a character. — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
There's 54 years of X-Men comics by now, so there are a lot of characters to explore. — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue. — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
No fact of human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul. — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I think the idea of embodying the physical presence of a character is the same on stage and screen. There are just… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
My first job was at Zellers in Belleville! It's weird that my first job was in a store like this. And 15… — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds… — Tara Strong Copy Share Image
I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I'm outside, writing, I'm also inside, experiencing, and it can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A lot of Manchester now - it's creating jobs and that's great, but some of the character is getting sucked out. There's… — Jez Williams Copy Share Image
When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's all very well to go out there and put on an exciting match, while some of my matches are the most… — Marty Scurll Copy Share Image
“Any naturally self-aware self-defining entity capable of independent moral judgment is a human.” Eveningstar said, “Entities not yet self-aware, but who, in… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
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